Unlike C-3PO's hard, metallic body or the Terminator's living tissue over a metal endoskeleton, robots of the future may be entirely soft-bodied. A new research initiative is aiming to make robots mushier and more like animals in order to improve their flexibility and usefulness in areas ranging from medicine to...
A rapidly spreading crop pest is teaming up with a virus to speed up both their invasions across the globe, scientists in China reported today. A variety of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci known as the B biotype is a super-invasive organism, Shu-Sheng Liu, an entomologist at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou,...